In a reference to the government cancelling passports of 45 non-resident Indians for abandoning their wives, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi Tuesday said why not also stop them from contesting elections.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi took to Twitter to hit out at Pakistan PM Imran Khan over the latter’s remark that he would show the Narendra Modi government ‘how to treat minorities’. Owaisi said Khan should instead take a lesson from India’s inclusive politics and minority right.

Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh leader Prakash Ambedkar said here on Thursday that he wants an alliance with the Congress for the coming Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, but it will also have to include the AIMIM.

K Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi, confident that it will secure another term, has decided to play hardball with the BJP which said on Sunday it was ready to support the TRS if it drops AIMIM and ‘‘seeks our support publicly.”

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